Friday, 29 November 2013

Part Two Mike Dixon-McIvor vs ACC

My hero of the week 75 year old Mike Dixon-McIvor has
continued his one-sided battle with NZ most aggressive and repressive state
controlled organisation the ACC.

Paula Rebstock ACC's hit woman.

Mikes guts might just pay
off…he may yet beat Nationals ACC’s iron fisted board chairwoman Paula Rebstock
specially appointed hit person put in place to prepare ACC for voter bribes in election year 2014. This
is the woman who voted against helping the families at Pike River…

The plan was simple, create a mythical financial problem [Nick Smith was
in charge of that until he was caught out helping out a good friend and was
sacked].

Up the charges, and put your own selected and highly rewarded doctors to
refuse payments in place and when the claimants are forced to appeal, use your
own controlled appeal board members to hear that appeal.

Mike has not given up the
fight, and so far all the cheap bribery attempts by ACC to wriggle snake like
out of their self inflicted wounds have been rejected by this brave and enduring
Kiwi battler. This from TV 3 News:

He's spent
the past 27 days on a hunger strike outside ACC headquarters in Wellington, but
75-year-old Mike Dixon-McIver could soon be going home.

The
corporation's agreed to enter arbitration with him to end a six-year battle,
but there's just one more thing he's waiting for before he does.

After ACC
unsuccessfully prosecuted him for fraud in 2007, Mr Dixon-McIver has been
fighting for damages and it has cost him his health and his income.

"They
have to be seen to meet the consequences of their actions above an
apology," he says.

He
picketed ACC in May this year, and it agreed to enter mediation, offering him
$90,000 in compensation. But he refused.

"It
wouldn't even cover seven years of lost income," he says.

It's been
a long month for wife Jolene, who has watched her husband lose 12kg.

"[I've]
mainly worried about his health because he's a diabetic, and also his drinking
hydration levels, we've had a few really bad days," she says.

Arbitration
will see a judge decide the outcome of this saga, and the decision will be
legally binding on both parties.

ACC says
its continuing discussions with Mr Dixon-McIver,
and there could be a resolution to arbitration in about three months.

He says
he's prepared to go home tonight if ACC gives him the $90,000 too, but it
refused.

"Well
they offered it in the first place and that was supposed to be as a sign of
good faith - if they withdraw it now, then we're back to the bad faith,"
he says.